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I met my pseudo-niece at the bike race track in summer 2014. We became friends. My spouse and I later became friends with E's identical twin sister M. Both twins visited us in Manhattan and at our weekend home. I told them that we've adopted them as our nieces. M even lived with us for nine months as a roommate.

They wanted to come visit to celebrate their birthday this weekend and this time they brought M's husband and also E and M's youngest sister and their parents. Most of us are vaccinated plus two weeks, and we acted cautiously with respect to the virus, and we had a grand old time eating together and sleeping with 8 people and one dog under one roof. Six of us took a ride yesterday in Minnewaska State Park Preserve. We rode up a steep gravel carriage road to Lake Awosting and then rode the very rough trail around the lake. The youngest sister, 18 years old, is an inexperienced cyclist and needed a nap after the ride.

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